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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Search Patrols - In a Time of Peace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Time of Peace," a boy shot by police is left on the street with his mouth gaping open where what happens?
(a) The world freezes for a moment.
(b) The onlookers can see his anguish.
(c) The nakedness of the whole nation can be seen.
(d) Real life is on view for all to see.

2. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
(a) Mama Galya.
(b) The dirty snow from Sonya’s boots is still on the floor.
(c) More soldiers.
(d) No food or heat.

3. Galya is compared to what, as she steals bread from market stalls but also as she cannot help but touch Anushka’s baby clothes in the laundry basket.
(a) A rat.
(b) A ghost.
(c) The wind.
(d) God.

4. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Playing the piano.

5. What happens to those who are caught unable to hear the soldiers?
(a) They are hauled away in trucks.
(b) They are put in stocks.
(c) They are shot on the spot.
(d) They are beaten.

Short Answer Questions

1. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?

2. In this bombed city one person takes a cigarette while another gives what to a dog?

3. In “And While Puppeteers Are Arrested,” there is silence which leads to what?

4. In “Pursued by the Men of Vasenka,” what does she want her neighbors to do?

5. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” the townspeople act deaf, so the soldiers begin doing what?

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